Do constitute 'High Art,' 'tis my belief

High Art is all my eye."

So when four weeks were wholly finishéd,

I from my gallery turned away.

"Give me green leaves and flesh and blood," I said,

"Fresh air and light of day.

I pine for Nature, sickened to my heart

Of the affected, strained, and queer.

What was to me Ambrosia of Art

Hath grown as drugged small-beer.